1893 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1893?
- January 13, 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- January 17, 1893 – The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- January 21, 1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
- March 1, 1893 – Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
- April 1, 1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- April 6, 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- April 8, 1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
- May 1, 1893 – The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- June 7, 1893 – Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
- June 13, 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.
- June 22, 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet’s commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
- July 6, 1893 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
- July 25, 1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- August 14, 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- September 19, 1893 – Women’s suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
- September 20, 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- November 7, 1893 – Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
- November 12, 1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.
- November 28, 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- November 29, 1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
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